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News Read announcements and updates from TGS. Our degree program stands on several pillars of excellence: The Dynamic Clinical Training Model of The Family Institute at Northwestern University — The Family Institute TFI is a world-renown organization with a long tradition of integrating mental health education, practice and research. In TFI's approach, students are educated in mental health practice and apply their skills with real clients in TFI's onsite clinic and in clinical centers around the country.
Students work under the supervision of seasoned practitioners, many of whom are leaders in professional counseling and psychotherapy. TFI sets a high standard in innovative scholarship, teaching and practice and this drives our students to rapidly gain therapeutic knowledge and skills. The Counseling Profession — Influenced by the theoretical and intellectual traditions of the Counseling field, our students are prepared to protect the mental health and wellness of those who use counseling services.
These powerful pedagogical traditions lead to the development of a strong professional counselor identity, preparing students to seek licensure across the United States.
Our program is psychodynamically-informed and emphasizes the centrality of the therapeutic alliance and the importance of therapist self reflection. Students are trained to be practitioner-scholars and delve into research and other scholarship in mental health, culminating in their own Capstone project. And it's really time consuming. But it was lack of GRE, the single cohort concept that I absolutely—like it intrigued me at the beginning.
And then through the two years that I was here doing this program, I couldn't fathom doing this program in any other way than the single cohort system that they've got.
I had a couple of unique perspectives or unique scenarios or situations with the single cohort system. What it does is it provides it truly provides a safe space where I could fully say what my beliefs were without being looked down upon without anybody—.
I'm not going to say challenge because that's exactly what that cohort system I believe a big portion of it is, you do, you challenge each other's views and you challenge your own internal way of thought.
Now, I'm in a complete different group of people that think differently than me and challenged me to think differently. That's number one. And number two, another beautiful portion of it is you get to know everybody there and you learn what the different strengths, the benefits of working with different people in that group because they think differently.
They have different cultures, have different upbringings, different backgrounds. And you really get to know that group. They become family essentially because you are spending a lot of time with a certain amount of people.
It really provides some really good cohesion and continuity when you're doing group projects and moving from one class to the next to the next to the next, because then you understand what strengths, what weaknesses these people have in different groups.
And it just it makes it a lot easier. And then you feel a whole lot more comfortable. The classes or nighttime classes. So I remember to They're hard work. I'm not going to say it's easy work.
Grad school is very difficult and it's time consuming, but a good time management skills. And the professors are very it's one of the beautiful things about going to brick and mortar school is the professors are available, you call them, you can email them and you're getting responses back pretty quick, which is a complete flip from when I was doing online classes in the army where you'd send a send a question to the professor and you might not get an answer for five or six days.
Grad school, the age of the students tends to be a little bit higher. There's a lot of us that have families, a lot of us, all the professors understood that.
They understood. A lot of us are holding jobs, working 40 hours and coming to this class and doing these monster papers and reading hundreds of pages a week and trying to absorb as much information as we could.
They understood that. So if you're having difficulty with something, it was just a talk with the professor and they will work something out because it wasn't about making you feel as if you had to maintain a certain standard.
I'm judging your performance off of you. And that's kind of the way the whole program was, like that's the way it felt. So my dream role, I'm living it right now and I'm working it right now. In fact, I'm a child and family therapist with the Steven A.
Through the internship program that was here, plus the internship fair and the guidance that was given by professors. It was, it opened my mind to see, hey, it's not just PTSD. There's so much, you've got to look holistically and see that in military families are more than that.
They're hey, you can do couples, like who better to do couples than you, James, because you're married for twenty two years and you spent twenty one of them in the army and working with kids. I've got three beautiful, amazing kids and Dr. Leggett and family systems changed my family because one of the things that when I came into grad school, I came out with open mind and said, whatever you teach me here and tell me that I am supposed to be doing my clients, I will do myself.
And so all of this family information, all of this stuff I wrapped into my family and I started to implement in my family and I live a dream. And in fact, I think I told you when I walked in here, I do. I live a dream because I work my dream job. And the only reason I open my eyes to start looking for something in that was this program helped me say, don't pigeonhole yourself into this. And in fact, there was times where I had a couple of professors talk about two years, give yourself two years, because your passion you'll find over a couple of years is going to not be at the level that it was when you first started it.
And so I found this job. Amazing program, amazing supervisor there. And it was because I was motivated by my counselor, by my professors here to, don't pigeonhole yourself into one thing, expand your horizons and chase your happiness.
And so that's what I did. And now I found this job at this clinic. And it's a beautiful. Couple of things I know for a fact. Number one, you're going to be challenged and you're going to challenge yourself and the faculty are going to challenge you in ways that you didn't think were possible. But they do it in a way that you don't really necessarily know you're being challenged until after the class. And you look back at where you were. The professors challenged us that on a daily basis, there's so many, so many memories I have of going, no, that's not how it works.
No, no, no, no. And then three weeks later going, you know he's right or she's right. It is like, oh, man, I never thought of looking at it like that. Or one of my favorite memories was, like I said, I was the only guy there. And I had mentioned that, you know, talk about safe space. This is an example of the safe space was I had shared something and I had said and then I cried like a little schoolgirl and my classmate sitting next to me, looks over to me and she goes, James you didn't cry like a little schoolgirl.
You cried like a 41 year old combat vet. I was like, you know, you're right, because that's what I am. Expressing emotions isn't a weakness. These credits will not be counted as part of their graduate program.
In addition to meeting the general requirements for admission to the Northwestern graduate program, the MCP degree applicant must complete an application and interview process that includes:. Three letters of recommendation. Optional: A score that places the individual at the 25th percentile or higher on two of the three areas verbal, quantitative, and writing of the Graduate Record Exam GRE , or at the 25th percentile or higher on the Miller Analogies Test MAT.
Please ask us if you need this option if you are not sure. I had some degree of trepidation at first, having not been a student in a decade and a half. Having professors who were real counselors and who brought broad experiences to the table gave me a clear idea of what to expect. Incia Rashid, M. Capstone Project. Essential Program Experiences. Who Will Teach You. Face-to-Face Client Work. Hours of Supervision. What Degree You Will Earn.
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